Recipes from Bassas da India

I confess, I love the non-countries. That's why I don't just quietly delete them from my list whenever I discover them there. I wish I could remember where my list came from, because this is actually the second time a country has shown up that I would really not in any way persoanly call an actual "country." Sure there have...

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Recipes from Barbados

This week we're back in the Caribbean, which is something I promised to not comment about anymore except to say that there are a lot of countries in the Caribbean. There, I'm done. The Bajan staple Christmas meal, jug jug with boiled ham. Of course, though it is considered a Caribbean nation, Barbados is actually situated...

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Recipes from Balochistan

I learned a few things about dal this week. If you've eaten a lot of Indian food, you probably already know that dal (or daal) is a kind of spiced lentil soup or stew. I've been making dal from brown lentils for years, but just last week I figured out that there are many different types of dal: moong dal is made from mung...

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Recipes from Bangladesh

Welcome to Bangladesh, land of "every recipe contains exactly one ingredient that you can't find locally and costs at least $14.95 to ship, if you can even find it online at all." Besan chicken and bhuna khichuri, Bangladeshi style. Officially, though, Bangladesh (formerly East Pakistan) is a land of rivers, with about...

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